Humble leaders are always learning and asking others to help them, writes Dan Rockwell, who offers seven ways leaders can teach humility during team meetings, such as by discussing strengths and weaknesses and what team members have learned from mistakes. "Humility is a set of behaviors that express interest in the interest of others," Rockwell writes.
Decision-making abilities can be improved when you take personal values such as dependability or self-reliance into account. Afterward, use a four-part model to guide your decision-making processes.
Besides paying employees more, there are other things businesses can do to show their appreciation for hard work, writes Tommy Mello, owner of A1 Garage Doors. Work with employees on their individual goals, send a gift at an unexpected time, make time for coffee, take your team out for a special meal, and allow employees to take paid time off for voluntary or charitable efforts, Mello says.
The federal Paycheck Protection Program, which gave small businesses relief for keeping people employed during the pandemic, may have contributed to the job resignation trend that began in 2020, according to researchers with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. "Industries receiving larger PPP loans experienced elevated quits even 12 months after the PPP disbursement, suggesting that the availability of PPP funds might have prevented some 'usual' reallocation from happening early on and thus subsequently created a pent-up demand for labor market reallocation," researchers wrote.
Late-stage startups that were forced by public market turmoil to postpone their initial public offerings are pressing ahead with layoffs to ride out rough economic waters, in some cases moving faster than their publicly-traded rivals. Chime Financial, Gopuff and Stripe are among the pre-IPO startups downsizing their workforce.
Pressure is building on everyone in the workforce, from employees, to managers, to the C-suite, writes Julie Winkle Giulioni, who outlines four ways to "ease the squeeze," including identifying causes of stress and asking for help. "Call a 'time out' when the pressures from one side or another are too great and ask for reinforcements," Giulioni writes.
According to a new study, humans respond to music they can feel even if they can't hear it, with concert attendees being logged as dancing 12% more when very-low-frequency speakers blasted inaudible bass during an electronic music set than when the speakers were off. "Music is a biological curiosity -- it doesn't reproduce us, it doesn't feed us, and it doesn't shelter us, so why do humans like it and why do they like to move to it?" said neuroscientist Daniel Cameron, first author of the study in Current Biology.
